The Ultimate PUMPKIN Growing Guide // Everything you need to know to Grow Pumpkins at Home 🌱🎃

Let's talk all things Growing Pumpkin! Pumpkin is a great base crop to grow at home that provides your homestead with an abundance of food on a single plant. The great thing about pumpkins is that they come with their very own sustainable packaging! Pumpkins can be very easily stored to use throughout the year and provide a variety of uses both sweet, and savoury. 🌸 FREE // Tuesday tips newsletter: https://sustainableholly.ck.page/0293... Pumpkin is easy to grow if you get a few key things right. Today I am going to share with you the key elements to growing an amazing crop of pumpkins whether you have a big garden or a small urban courtyard. As well as which variety of Pumpkins to Grow, When to Grow Pumpkin, How to care for your Pumpkins, and How to know when Pumpkins are ready to Harvest. We also talk about How to prepare Pumpkins for Storage and make sure you stick around to the end because we will make a delicious and EASY Pumpkin Soup using the whole Pumpkin Plant. Because it's not just pumpkins that we can eat! There is so much more food that is often wasted! Chapters // 0:00 Intro 2:16 How to choose Pumpkin Varieties 4:04 Popular Pumpkin Varieties 7:18 When do you Grow Pumpkin? 8:16 Tips to Grow Pumpkins 9:23 How to Plant Pumpkin Seeds 10:15 Top Tip for Growing Pumpkins 10:49 How to Care for Pumpkin Plants 11:08 Pumpkin Pollination 11:22 Do you need more than one Pumpkin Vine? 13:39 How to attract pollinators to the garden 13:59 How to manage pests in the Pumpkin Patch 14:49 How to know when Pumpkins are ready to Harvest? 16:50 Preparing Pumpkins for Storage 18:21 What does curing Pumpkins mean? 18:34 How to Cure Pumpkins 19:17 How to Store Pumpkins 20:32 How to tell if Pumpkins are going off 21:15 Saving Pumpkin Seeds 22:22 Pumpkin Soup Recipe 23:37 Crispy Pumpkin Leaf Chips 24:10 Edible Pumpkin Leaves and Flowers I am so excited to share this video with you! Hit subscribe and let's grow more food at home together! // Pumpkin Soup Recipe // 500g Pumpkin 2 Carrots 1 Onion 1 Can of coconut milk 1 1/2 cups water 1 tsp curry powder 1 tsp Ground Tumeric salt and pepper to season Pinch chilli flakes Olive oil 5-6 Young Pumpkin Leaves and shoots. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celsius. Slice pumpkin into wedges, drizzle with olive oil and roast Pumpkin and Carrots until soft. Dice, cook and soften the onion in a large pot. Stir through curry powder and ground Tumeric for 1-2 minutes and remove from the heat. Remove pumpkin skin and add cooked roast pumpkin and carrots to the onions. Turn the pot on to low heat and add in water and coconut milk and stir and mash to combine. Add in chilli flakes. Blend using a stick mixer or blender to a smooth consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Roughly chop pumpkin leaves and drizzle with oil. Sprinkle with salt and bake @ 180 degrees celsius for 5-10 minutes until crispy. Add on top of your soup to serve. 🌱 EBOOK // Grow Food from Cuttings https://bit.ly/3LLrlSS 🥕 Want More? Join my membership for exclusive member-only Recipes and Articles to Grow, Cook, and Preserve your own food at home. https://sustainableholly.com/join-the... MORE VIDEOS YOU MIGHT LIKE // Top Edible Plants: 22 Edible Perennial Plants for Abundant Ed... 10 Edible Ground Covers // 10 Edible Ground Cover Plants for Permacul... My Journey to Sustainable Living: 🏡 My Journey to SUSTAINABLE living // 2021... Urban Permaculture Kitchen Garden: Urban Permaculture KITCHEN GARDEN Tour // ... CREATING EXTRA INCOME FOR YOUR HOMESTEAD// Make money with online surveys: https://bit.ly/3Bg0XNr Ebook templates: https://bit.ly/2UfOXsr Photography editing: https://bit.ly/3cPfXW8 Start an Email list: https://bit.ly/3VNXRbT Find a video editor: https://bit.ly/436R2Vf MY GARDENING ESSENTIALS // Garden Bag: https://bit.ly/3t5zc6h Pink Secateurs: https://bit.ly/3qytl6s Solar Light: https://bit.ly/36GUwX0 Cutting Shears: https://bit.ly/3ECL7wF Retractable Hose: https://bit.ly/2TSC0Bo​ More gardening tools: https://bit.ly/32IQmbD​​ DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting my channel so I can continue to provide you with free content each week! #growingpumpkin #pumpkins #gardeningaustralia